Football
Elche ends Hummel kit supply deal early to sign with Nike
Spanish LaLiga football club Elche has switched kit suppliers from Danish brand Hummel to global sportswear company Nike
Bids invited for video game licensing rights to Euro 2024, Euro 2028
Uefa, football’s European governing body, is inviting bids from video games developers for a range of licensing rights to Uefa men’s national team competitions during the 2022 to 2028 period.
Sky takes DAZN-TIM grievance to antitrust watchdog
Pay-television broadcaster Sky Italia has lodged an appeal with Italy’s competition authorities over the agreement between sports subscription service and media company DAZN and Telecom Italia (TIM) f…
ORF nets 1.84m peak audience for Austria’s historic Euro 2020 progress
ORF, the Austrian public broadcaster, attracted a peak audience of 1
Romania’s Digi Sport lands string of domestic football rights
Romanian pay-television broadcaster Digi Sport has sealed a host of domestic football rights, including the second-tier football league, from the Romanian Football Federation (FRF) from next season
OneFootball incorporates WSC Sports’ automated highlights
OneFootball, the football-based media platform, is to use match highlights generated by WSC Sports in a deal agreed with the automated highlights provider
Lotus ‘in talks’ with Norwich City over front-of-shirt rights vacated by BK8
English Premier League club Norwich City is understood to be working towards a quick resolution of its front-of-shirt sponsorship position, with luxury car brand Lotus potentially one of the front runners…
Restart of Chinese and Singapore football leagues delayed
The Chinese Super League and the Singapore Premier League have both seen restarts delayed as Covid-19 continues to disrupt the Asian football calendar, according to multiple reports
Genius adds betting streaming rights to Argentinian FA deal
Sports data and technology company Genius Sports has expanded its deal with the Argentinian Football Association (AFA) to incorporate betting streaming rights
Segal completes Houston Dynamo, Dash takeover in $400m deal
American real estate investor Ted Segal has officially taken over Major League Soccer's Houston Dynamo FC, the Houston Dash of the National Women’s Soccer League, and the leasing rights to BBVA Stadium.
Incoming Eliteserien rights-holder TV2 makes VAR proposal
Norwegian commercial broadcaster TV2 has offered to introduce a Video Assistant Referee system for domestic football competitions for when it takes over the broadcast rights in 2023
MLS unveils details of new lower-division league
Major League Soccer has formally announced plans to create a new lower-division league, which is scheduled to begin play in 2022
LaLiga clubs report €77m net profit in 2019-20, hefty loss predicted in 2020-21
A decline of matchday income brought on by the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic has led to a 65-per-cent decline in profits for clubs in Spain’s top-flight La Liga Santander and second-tier La Liga Smart B…
Tebas rules out double-digit LaLiga media rights growth
LaLiga president Javier Tebas has downplayed the possibility of strong revenue increases for the league ahead of its sale of media rights in Spain beyond the current cycle, warning "we are not going to…
Dafabet adds Palmeiras to portfolio, Betsul signs Internacional deal
Betting operator Dafabet has become the first sports betting sector company to sponsor Brazilian Série A club and last season’s Copa Libertadores champions Palmeiras.
Mediapro appointed as provider of VAR services for Concacaf
International rights agency and production group Mediapro has been selected by the Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (Concacaf) to supply and implement video assistant…
CAF in discussions to create an ‘African Super League’
The Confederation of African Football has said it is in “preliminary discussions” over the launch of a new ‘African Super League’ club competition.
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